This is politics,science and economics. "Peter Thiel is pushing Donald Trump to use private space companies at NASA" Does Asgardia have plans to offer commercial services in the space field? Does it have the capabilty both technical (probably based on the Founders background) and financially ( big question of $billions requirement) ? "Thiel is no fan of NASA’s traditional relationship with aerospace contractors. During the campaign, he was critical of failed government tech projects, telling the Republican National Convention that “our government was once high-tech” but is now “broken.” “We don’t accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley, and we must not accept it from our government,” Thiel said." Do we have anything radically new or unique to offer that would get funding? Nano tech? Are we more advanced in certain fields or do we need to play catch up with space x before any credibility is established . If so how long and how much will this cost? Sooo many question in need of answers? Article link.... Quartz Dec 21st. http://qz.com/869105/peter-thiel-is-pushing-donald-trump-use-private-space-companies-like-spacex-at-nasa/ Resource link Commercial Spaceflight Federation The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is the leading voice for the commercial spaceflight industry http://www.commercialspaceflight.org/

So, I heard that the leaders of Asgardia will buy an island in Chile which will be our first sovereign territory, but will we have more? What are the plans for future Earth-based territories for Asgardia? I'm sure not everyone can live in space and we need Earth-based territories also for several reasons.

We are a community of 500,000 + and as many have stated this is our largest resource which arguably is being wasted and needs direction What can we do over the next year that is productive and progresses our goals? The question of increasing and fine tuning our goals has yet to be answered is there anyone that can decide on this? Are these decions actually up to us? Is there any leadership that can respond or do we need to create that leadership from within the community? Let us start with options for the top 10 projects that are either on our wish list, have practical application, can be immediatley commenced by members of the community or anything else I would start by wanting to promote and get more participation in this new forum. . Frankly a few hundred active members is not representative of a 500,000 strong group and any decision may not be truly representative. i know it is very early but if we see the membership of the FB pages of max 13,000 or less than 3% we definitely require more pro active work in this matter. what else should we prioritize and who are going to do it...? maybe we need a volunteer list as well :) [Mod Post] Welcome! We have many discussions and projects happening at the moment. We welcome your ideas. Please click the link to Forum Index at the top of this board. From there you can see a list of topics and projects immediately available for your ideas. If you have any further questions please let us know.

Hello everyone! I would like to direct this message to the people who are in charge of bringing Asgardia to life. Maybe I won't be able to contact Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli directly but maybe those who are working with him closely could somehow contact me here. My intention is to seek an audience with the higher ups, because I believe I have some valuable information that I would like to share with you. Now for security reasons I cannot reveal everything in detail until we will have our own patent office, so I can apply for patents for my designs. I graduated with a degree in electronics engineering in the Universidad de Zamboanga. I know this school is insignificant compared to the other schools in the world, but trust me everything I know I did not get it from my teachers or my school and I have so much more to offer than just my education and background. I have been a fan of science for as long as I can remember and I believe that the creation of Asgardia is not a coincidence when it was set up perfectly in the right time when I am ripe to share my knowledge to my fellow Asgardian citizens and maybe the world. If you will consider me to be among the first of your citizens that is. With this regard here is the list of things I think I can offer you: 1) Possibility of perpetual energy device. 2) All electric transportation including land based vehicles, sea based vehicles and aerial vehicles (all might be self-charging which will allow for longer range and better reliability). 3) New farming techniques. 4) Artificial floating cities like those that Japan is planning to build. 5) New propulsion systems for space travel (plasma based). And more... I hope someone will direct me in the right direction, because I'm so tired with my day job. I want to create new things that will help people. :) Sincerely, Marlon D. [Mod Post] Thank you for sharing. I think this post would be better suited in the Ministry of Science Forum. I will move this post there so that you can contact them directly.

digital art is an interest I have. I have been following Depict since it was funded $3.3million by Jan 2016 It is interesting as the concept is rental of art on a 4k screen/frame. I will give the link to the site so we can enjoy what they have to offer :} but I will also link the crowdfunding site which gives more detail and the manner of offering the project , something that Asgardia may want to consider when it comes to revenue/funding requirements https://www.depict.com/explore https://wefunder.com/depict "Why it’s a big deal: Depict is doing for art what iTunes and the iPod did for music. This MIT team has designed the foundation of a new digital art economy. Depict could be the dominant platform where famous artists and galleries sell digital art, young talent gets discovered, wealthy collectors build million dollar collections, and the rest of us access the beautiful world of high art for the first time. " and an active resource site http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/

We all have an idea of cultural differences between the East and West and these will become more evident when Asgardia has better communication between its diverse membership I watch a myriad of news channels. Most mainstream have agendas and are heavily into propoganda . A very refreshing and relaxing channel is NHK world the Japanese english channel which is proportionately programmed to air many more cultural segments than the mainstream. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/culture/ OK yes they are promoting Japan by example but it is nice . Furthermore they look at traditional art , and artisans. the importance of this will increase as more leisure time or employment choice is created/;mandated by robotics Tech AI and UBI What are the pros of your culture that could be an example or lesson learned to those of other cultures and what are the things that should be discouraged?

Pagbati sa lahat ng Pinoy Asgardians! Bukas ang talakayan na ito sa lahat, ano man ang saloobin ninyo, suhestiyon, at iba pa. dolph

Season 8 , Ep 25 Daniel assists the internet's premier candy surgeon in a series of complicated and bizarre food experiments. (8:30) http://tosh.cc.com/video-clips/y9r4ur/cewebrity-profile---food-surgeon---uncensored

**Pagbati sa lahat ng kababayan nating Asgardians!** Maligayang Pagdating sa opisyal na forum ng **Asgardia Philippines Chapter!** Dito natin mapag-uusapan at mao-organisa ang ating mga suhestiyon at kuru-kuro gamit ang ating sariling lenggwahe, kasama na po dito ang online resources, pananaliksik at iba pa. Sa ngayon, maaari nating gamitin ang tagalog o english bilang unibersal nating wika sa forum na ito, maaari din pong gamitin ang iba nating lengwahe sa kondisyong kasama ang pagsasaling wika sa tagalog o english. Gayundin, maaari ninyong bisitahin ang ating official website at basahin ang lahat ng pangunahing impormasyon patungkol sa Asgardia: Mula naman sa bumubuo ng admins at moderators staff, patuloy po kaming maghahatid sa inyo ng pangunahing kaganapan, balita at aktibidad patungkol sa internasyonal at nasyonal na usapin patungkol sa Asgardia. Patungkol naman po sa ating patakaran sa pag-post, mangyari pong bumisita sa Maging pamilyar sa Forum Rules bago magpost. Ang pagpost sa forum na ito ay nagpapahiwatig na iyong binasa at naintindihan ang lahat ng panuntunan. Ang Asgardia ay ating tahanan para sa pagkakaisa at kolaborasyon, tayo po ay magsama sama at magkaisa upang mabuo ang adhikain ng ating komunidad.

Maligayang araw mga ka Asgardia! Kumusta naman kayo?

This subject is currently quite a hot topic and can be resolved if we get an offcial position or through a debate and an eventual decision!!! Are we fully inclusive? All people on Earth? .The good, the bad/ (subjective) ? Criminals , mentally impaired? Dangers to society? Communicable/ incurable illnesses? victims of addiction ? radical islamists or any num,ber of other recognised terrorist groups? Advocates of cultures and groups that are extreme ..and there are a lot of those..https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/groups If yes then we need to establish protocols for to deal with those considered a danger to themselves and others ( also subjective) If no then we need to define requirements and boundaries which allow participation / 'citizenship" An official position is required on this subject. and who is authorised to make a temporary or permanent "Official decision"?

Whilst work on constitution is important the biggest question for me as a starting point for this is defining and agreeing on our eventual goals. The "Concept" https://asgardia.space/en/page/concept needs considerable work to provide more detail . 1. Is non interventionist a realistic option ? " A core legal principle is that Asgardia does not interfere in relations between states on Earth – and vice versa. " We wish to be a member of the UN.. by definition this will mean we would have to take a position/vote (interfere) in relations between States. Would it be morally correct to continually abstain on issues that involve clear wrong doing or that adversely effect our citizens in their original Nation? 2 While "The essence of Asgardia is Peace in Space, and the prevention of Earth’s conflicts being transferred into space." but also "Asgardia is also unique from a philosophical aspect – to serve entire humanity and each and everyone, regardless of his or her personal welfare and the prosperity of the country where they happened to be born. " How do we serve the vast majority of our community and entire humanity by not working toward resolving their problems here on Earth? Should we use Tech to eradicate hunger, poverty , disease? Should these be some of our goals or is that not what we want to do? 3 Peace in space..! well if we read the posts on weaponizing space that is a) not happening and b) not within our current capability so how do we acheive that? Head in the sand will not achieve that . Would a world federal Govt system help with each Nation having a vote? This is what I consider the UN to be the start of but the big players do not want the restrictions so the UN continues to be toothless when it comes to enforcing issues against the interests of the big players. Should we support chnge in the UN or create a new body that has powers? Who would sign up for that? well it would need to be in a Nations interest which is either military protection or most likely Economic benefit. 3.The root cause of the vast majority of international disputes is money to buy things food , weapons materials machinery personal gain for Politicians etc..or power to get money. Should we have an aim for post scarity so that Money is no longer a divisive issue. If there was less need would migration/refugees be such an enormous issue? Space Law progress is impeded due to space capable Nations not wishing to lose existing and anticipated advantages both in economics and National security how do we change that? Why would they listen to us? The potential answer is - the right message/s which need to be conveyed constantly to every corner of the world. - Credibility.. the message needs to come from a group that is credible and we will need to achieve a lot of thiongs before credibility is established including a community of 10's or 100,s of millions where it is difficult for the big Nations to ignore ( the smaller Nations are mostly already alligned under the big 3-5 and will follw the lead so it is those that need to take notice of Asgardia - The Big players will not move unless they gain considerable clear advantage by doing so..What are we offering/proposing that is good for them? The altrustic aims we embrace are not shared by those players who operate in a competitive duplicitous and often corrupt and nepotistic world returning to the theme of need and greed? Should our goals be expanded to address the reality of the world we live in and find the solution or is that too much to ask of us? Based on that decision we can then create a constitution that embodies those goals and principles .....or immediately create a Constitution that has the ability to evlove which is probably the better option.